Distillery Botanica creates new Gin to raise money for conservation programs
Distillery Botanica Gin has partnered with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to help raise funds for the garden’s conservation programs by creating a new limited edition ‘Rather Royal Gin’.
The announcement:
A Taste of Sydney to Save our Species
Award-winning Australian Gin Partners with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden
Premium Australian artisan spirit, Distillery Botanica Gin, has partnered with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to create the limited-edition ‘Rather Royal Gin’ using botanicals grown in the Garden itself.
Proceeds from sales will go towards the Garden’s conservation programs, which preserve our precious biodiversity through seed collection, seed banking and conservation research and training.
Distillery Botanica’s award-winning Master Distiller Philip Moore worked with the Garden’s Director of Horticulture, Jimmy Turner, over several months to select the best flora for the gin including Pope John Paul roses, mandarin leaf, lemon verbena, horehound, curry leaves, lovage and chamomile. The result is a rare collection of 1,000 handcrafted bottles of well-balanced gin which explores the essence of the iconic Sydney destination.
On the design of the limited edition, UNKL Co-Founder, Pim Van Nunen said: “We were very happy to add a dash of royal opulence to Distillery Botanica’s already strong and beautiful aesthetic. Hope ma’am would approve!”
Of the gin, Moore said: “The botanicals that give our gin its unique flavour were grown in the soil of the 200-year-old Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. So when you drink it, you’re literally drinking part of the Garden, and for that matter Sydney itself, while directly supporting important conservation work.”
Executive Director of the Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands Kim Ellis said: “Here in Australia, 10 per cent of our native plant species are listed as endangered, with a number of threats to our unique plant life, including climate change, invasive pathogens and habitat destruction.
“We saw a method by which to raise awareness and money for the important conservation we’re doing at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney: Taking Distillery Botanica’s Garden Grown Gin philosophy and making it gin that grows the Garden.”
Rather Royal Gin is available for RRP$129 from distillerybotanica.com, selected stockists and over the bar at the Botanic Garden Restaurant.
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